I was working with some thermistors for a recent project, I’m making a WiFi fridge sensor that sends data via MQTT, anyway, it uses a thermistor as the temp sensor and the ones I got did not come with a good datasheet. The datasheet for my part did not include any data on the temperature/resistance

It turns out that PastaCode, the syntax highlighting plugin I use is no longer being updated, doesn’t work with this version of WordPress and mangled all of my code so I’ll have to go through my old posts and see if I can replace the broken code and run it through my new syntax Highlighter

A while back I was mulling over the idea of a laser engraved PCB etching process and I found a 2.5 Watt cutting laser diode on sale for cheap on Banggood and decided to go for it, many months later I finally managed to get around to testing it and the laser works great! I

Today I decided to look into a more elegant solution to the problem of accurately determining the angle of my rudder pedals, previously I had solved this problem with a mechanical solution that converted the specific degrees of rotation of the rudder pedal cross arm to the 270° rotation of the potentiometer I’m using. This

After running into a bug with VLC capturing images from an RTSP stream in Linux, I decided to go a different route for capturing time lapses from my 3D printer and that was to use a local script on the PI that can be run with command line parameters to set the interval and duration

I was looking for a better way to capture time lapse recordings of my 3D printer, Octopi on my old raspberry Pi just wasn’t cutting it, so I decided to setup an RTSP stream as per this post here by Chris Carey, that was straightforward enough, but then I needed a way to periodically grab frames

I’ve been working with KDENLIVE recently and trying to get a good result for YouTube, unfortunately while KDENLIVE is very powerful, it’s documentation is abysmal, most of it is out of date and none of it explains the syntax that should be used for the render profiles, the format is pretty esoteric and really hard

Recently I switched over to using Mate as my window manager due to some lag issues with Cinnamon and I’ve been having issues with screen tearing since the switch, the vsync setting in the Nvidia control panel doesn’t appear to help. I found an interesting solution on CMSCritic.com that showed how to correct this, and testing

Now is a good time to start thinking about the nuts and bolts of our game and how we’re going to make it all work. We can think of our game as a series of things with “is a” and “has a” relationships, we’ll probably want something like this: A Game class that has: A game state

Now that we’ve made this much progress, it might be time to consider re-working the code to actually do something, this might actually be something that is better left to another github repo so we can keep using this one as a testing ground for ideas.   I think what we’ll do now is take